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SK Telecom invests $100M in Anthropic and partners to build telco-optimized Claude
Anthropic announced a strategic partnership and $100M investment from SK Telecom (SKT), South Korea's largest mobile operator. The two companies will co-develop a fine-tuned version of Claude optimized for telecommunications use cases including customer service, marketing, and sales, with multilingual support for Korean, English, Japanese, and Spanish. SKT domain experts will provide feedback to guide Claude's fine-tuning on telco-specific tasks, and the partnership follows an earlier investment from SK Telecom Venture Capital.
Anthropic appoints KiYoung Choi as Representative Director of Korea ahead of Seoul office opening
Anthropic has named KiYoung Choi as Representative Director of Korea, ahead of opening a Seoul office. Choi joins from Snowflake and brings over 30 years of technology leadership across Korea and Asia-Pacific, including prior roles at Google Cloud, Adobe, Autodesk, and Microsoft. Korea is cited as a high-engagement market for Claude, with usage running 3.5x above population-expected rates. Existing Korean enterprise customers include SK Telecom and Law&Company.
Anthropic Opens Seoul Office as Third Asia-Pacific Location, Citing 10x Regional Revenue Growth
Anthropic announced plans to open a Seoul office in early 2026, its third in Asia-Pacific following Tokyo and Bengaluru, driven by over 10x run-rate revenue growth in the region over the past year. Korea ranks in the top five globally for Claude usage both in total and per capita, with Claude Code weekly active users in Korea growing 6x in four months. Enterprise deployments include SK Telecom's AI customer service model and Law&Company's legal assistant. Large business accounts (>$100K ARR) in Asia-Pacific have grown 8x year-over-year.
Anthropic Names Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International, Announces Global Enterprise Expansion
Anthropic announced the appointment of Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International, alongside expanded global offices in Dublin, London, Zurich, and Tokyo. The company disclosed run-rate revenue growth from $87M at the start of 2024 to over $5B in August 2025, with enterprise customers growing from under 1,000 to over 300,000 in two years. The announcement includes deployment case studies from NBIM, the European Parliament, Novo Nordisk, SK Telecom, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Rakuten, United Airlines, and TELUS, illustrating broad international enterprise adoption of Claude.
Anthropic enables fine-tuning of Claude 3 Haiku via Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic announced that Claude 3 Haiku can now be fine-tuned through Amazon Bedrock using custom prompt-completion pairs, with general availability reached November 1, 2024. The capability targets specialized business workflows, with Anthropic citing a case study showing classification accuracy improvement from 81.5% to 99.6% and 85% token reduction on a content moderation task. Early enterprise adopters include SK Telecom and Thomson Reuters, both reporting measurable performance gains. Fine-tuning is available in the US West (Oregon) region with text support up to 32K context, with vision fine-tuning planned.